NASA is running a competition to figure out how to settle the galaxy

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By Chelsea Whyte

Ten thousand years from now, humanity decides to settle 100,000 stars in the galaxy, and the budge is on to seem who can spread through our cosmic neighbourhood the fastest. That’s the premise of the 10th World Trajectory Optimisation Competitors (GTOCX) currently being budge by NASA, by which teams of astrophysicists and engineers try to order out a direction for the human budge to populate the celebrities.

On this imagined future, folks have bag entry to to pudgy spacecraft that can abet lifestyles prolonged ample to walk to …